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Thousands of private camera feeds found online. Make sure yours isn’t one of them

If you have internet-connected cameras in or around your home, be sure to check their settings. Researchers just discovered 40,000 of them serving up images of homes and businesses to the internet. Bitsight’s TRACE research team revealed the issue in a report released this month. The cameras were providing the images without any kind of […]

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Gmail’s multi-factor authentication bypassed by hackers to pull off targeted attacks

Russian hackers have bypassed Google’s multi-factor authentication (MFA) in Gmail to pull off targeted attacks, according to security researchers at Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG). The hackers pulled this off by posing as US Department of State officials in advanced social engineering attacks, building a rapport with the target and then persuading them into creating

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Billions of logins for Apple, Google, Facebook, Telegram, and more found exposed online

When organizations, good or bad, start hoarding collections of login credentials the numbers quickly add up. Take the 184 million logins for social media accounts we reported about recently. Now try to imagine 16 billion! Researchers at Cybernews have discovered 30 exposed datasets containing from several millions to over 3.5 billion records each. In total,

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Mattel’s going to make AI-powered toys, kids’ rights advocates are worried

Toy company Mattel has announced a deal with OpenAI to create AI-powered toys, but digital rights advocates have urged caution. In a press release last week, the owner of the Barbie brand signed a “strategic collaboration” with the AI company, which owns ChatGPT. “By using OpenAI’s technology, Mattel will bring the magic of AI to

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Fake bank ads on Instagram scam victims out of money

Ads on Instagram—including deepfake videos—are impersonating trusted financial institutions like Bank of Montreal (BMO) and EQ Bank (Equitable Bank) in order to scam people, according to BleepingComputer. There are some variations in how the scammers approach this. Some use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to create deepfake videos aimed at gathering personal information, while others link to

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Scammers hijack websites of Bank of America, Netflix, Microsoft, and more to insert fake phone number

The examples in this post are actual fraud attempts found by Malwarebytes Senior Director of Research, Jérôme Segura. Cybercriminals frequently use fake search engine listings to take advantage of our trust in popular brands, and then scam us. It often starts, as with so many attacks, with a sponsored search result on Google. In the

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Smart air fryers ordered to stop invading our digital privacy

In a confirmation that we’ve gone full Black Mirror, the UK’s privacy czar has wagged a finger at air fryer manufacturers and told them to stop playing with our data. New draft guidance from the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) targets not just air fryer vendors but manufacturers of any smart home products, ranging from smart

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